Born in Japan, Michelle Naka Pierce is the author of seven titles, including the text/image collaboration SHE, A BLUEPRINT (BlazeVOX, 2011) and BELOVED INTEGER (Bootstrap/Pub Lush, 2007). Awarded the 2010-2011 Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize, CONTINUOUS FRIEZE BORDERING RED (Fordham, forthcoming 2012) documents the migratory patterns of the hybrid as she travels the floating borders in Rothko's Seagram murals. She is associate professor and director of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, CO.

Continuous Frieze Bordering Red (Fordham University Press, 2012), She, A Blueprint (BlazeVOX [Books], 2011), Beloved Integer (Bootstrap Productions, 2007), TRI/VIA (Erudite Fangs, 2003)

Symptom of Color (Dusie Press, 2011), 48 Minutes Left (Belladonna Books, 2003)

For the Time Being: The Bootstrap Book of Poetic Journals (Bootstrap Productions, 2007), Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (Soft Skull Press, 2007), La Puerta: A Doorway into the Academy (Kendall Hunt Publishing, 1997)

American Letters & Commentary, Aufgabe, Blue Mesa Review, Bombay Gin, Conceptions Southwest, Fact-Simile, Foursquare, Interlope, Mandorla, Monkey Puzzle, Shiny, Sous Rature, Tarpaulin Sky, The Nieve Roja Review, Traverse Magazine, Trickhouse, Upstairs at Duroc